"I've always felt the moment. People call me lucky, and luck is wonderful attribute. But it's more - it's a sense somehow. It's inexplicable, it happens. It's a feeling and you just move into that direction. Someone once said that wherever I am is the perfect picture. I didn't like the way it sounded, but I believe that. It's not that I'm positive of it deep down inside, it's that I have to believe it. When you make that decision - 'This is the place to go' - you've got to live with it. There's no alternative."

- Walter Iooss

When Walter Iooss was a teenager in East Orange, New Jersey, he couldn't imagine that anything would ever replace the joy and intensity of the stickball games that absorbed his summer days. Four decades have passed, and now Steve Fine, Sports Illustrated magazine's director of photography, calls Iooss the foremost sports photographer of his generation, "a fixture in American journalism to a degree I think people who see the cover of Sports Illustrated don't know."